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Sunita Williams retires after 27 years, 608 days in space

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams retires after 27 years, completing three missions aboard the International Space Station and setting numerous spaceflight records. She is currently visiting India.

'Truly no words to capture the depth of our sorrow'

US skating mourns athletes lost in plane crash

Four killed, several hurt in multiple stabbing-shooting in Sydney mall

Chaos erupted around 4 pm (local time) with reports of multiple stabbings within the bustling shopping complex.

Indian-origin couple hid behind cardboard boxes to survive Sydney attack

Shoi Ghoshal from Sydney told the BBC that she and her husband Debashis Chakrabarty were at the Westfield shopping centre at Bondi Junction earlier today when the attack started to unfold.

A Relieved Shreyas!

On Monday, May 2, 2022, the Kolkata Knight Riders finally ended their losing run at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai.

Mascarenhas receives two-week ban starting in 2011

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has handed a two-week ban, starting next season, to all-rounder Dmitri Mascarenhas for his Twitter outburst against national selector Geoff Miller.

7 no-nos when asking for a raise

Do you surf the Net at work?

The average worker wastes more than two hours a day, and that's not including lunch, according to a new Web survey by America Online and Salary.com.

'For 1,400 years India led the world in science'

'Some Indians take the extreme view that everything was known to our ancients, but others go to the opposite extreme and consider everything Indian was superstition and rubbish.' 'Indian science was perhaps more rational than the European science of the time.'

Sydney cafe manager grabbed captor's gun to protect hostages

Tori Johnson, the 34-year-old manager of Lindt Chocolate Cafe who was one of two persons killed during the Sydney siege, is being remembered as a hero with some reports claiming that he tried to snatch the weapon from the gunman to allow the other hostages to escape.

Yoga day is a good beginning, but only a beginning

India needs to build its Grand Narrative, and its cultural power, which conquered all of ASEAN (then known as Indo-China), needs to be forcefully projected while simultaneously hard economic and military power are also emphasised, says Rajeev Srinivasan.

Be very afraid of the biometric regime

There are unprecedented political implications of identification based on 'biological attributes of an individual', such as employed by Aadhaar, warns Gopal Krishna.